Montreal-born manic-depressive Duddy Kravitz believes what his grandfather told him: a man without land is nobody. Setting his heart on acquiring property, he runs three or four jobs at the same time, promotes everything from poker games to films of bar mitzvahs, and goes bankrupt. But amid a tangled wreckage of miffed friends, relations, and one mean gangster, Duddy finally gets his heart's desire. This bawdy, entertaining novel has become a classic.
